Brief summary:
It is winter, and Jurgis is having a hard time finding work. When he is out begging one night, he runs into Freddie Jones who is drunk. Jones invites him to his house for food, and Jurgis is amazed with the size of his mansion. Jurgis also realizes that Jones’s father is the owner of the meat packing factory that he worked for in Packingtown. He gets into a conflict with the butler, Hamilton, once Jones falls asleep. Hamilton orders him to leave and tries to search him, but Jurgis threatens him to keep him away.
characters: Jurgis, Freddie Jones, Hamilton
passages:
"He had lost the fierce battle of greed.....did not escape the sentence" (246).
"Everything was built to express it to him...buried in safes and vaults of steel" (247).
"Before them there loomed an enormouse granite pile.... a hotel or the city hall" (251).
It is winter, and Jurgis is having a hard time finding work. When he is out begging one night, he runs into Freddie Jones who is drunk. Jones invites him to his house for food, and Jurgis is amazed with the size of his mansion. Jurgis also realizes that Jones’s father is the owner of the meat packing factory that he worked for in Packingtown. He gets into a conflict with the butler, Hamilton, once Jones falls asleep. Hamilton orders him to leave and tries to search him, but Jurgis threatens him to keep him away.
characters: Jurgis, Freddie Jones, Hamilton
passages:
"He had lost the fierce battle of greed.....did not escape the sentence" (246).
"Everything was built to express it to him...buried in safes and vaults of steel" (247).
"Before them there loomed an enormouse granite pile.... a hotel or the city hall" (251).